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Executive Order 10528—Addition of the Marginal Wharf Area to Sand Island Military Reservation, Territory of Hawaii

April 22, 1954

WHEREAS by Executive Order No. 3358 of November 24, 1920, certain lands on Sand Island and Quarantine Island, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, were set aside for military purposes, and such lands now constitute a portion of Sand Island Military Reservation; and

WHEREAS it is deemed desirable and in the public interest that there be added to the said reservation that certain adjoining parcel of land known as the Marginal Wharf Area; subject, however, to possible future use of such parcel of land for Reserved Channel purposes:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 91 of the act of April 30, 1900, 31 Stat. 159, as amended by section 7 of the act of May 27, 1910, 36 Stat. 447, and as President of the United States, the following-described parcel of land known as the Marginal Wharf Area, located at Sand Island, Kaholaloa, Honolulu, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, is hereby added to and reserved as a part of Sand Island Military Reservation and placed under the jurisdiction and control of the Department of the Army for military purposes; subject, however, to possible future use of such parcel of land for Reserved Channel purposes in accordance with the establishment of the Reserved Channel and the Future Project Line by the Acting Secretary of War on May 31, 1935:

Being a portion of the land conveyed to the United States of America by deeds of: Dowsett Company, Limited, dated June 30, 1902, and recorded in the Bureau of Conveyances at Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, in Liber 241 on pages 260-264; Alfred W. Carter, George R. Carter and H. M. Von Holt, Trustees, dated July 9, 1902, and recorded in the Bureau of Conveyances at Honolulu, aforesaid, in Liber 241 on pages 264-265; and Oahu Railway and Land Company, dated October 16, 1902, and recorded in the Bureau of Conveyances at Honolulu, aforesaid, in Liber 241 on pages 265-269.

Beginning at a concrete monument at the west corner of this piece of land, the coordinates of the said point of beginning referred to Government Survey Triangulation Station "U. S. E. North Base", being 3,279.39 feet North and 3,282.53 feet West, thence running by azimuths measured clockwise from true South:

1. 216° 40' 318.84 feet;

2. 279° 47' 194.39 feet along Kalihi Channel;

3. 304° 32' 2,868.99 feet along same;

4. 34° 32' 400.00 feet along Honolulu Harbor;

5. 124° 32' 3,057.39 feet along Sand Island Military Reservation (Tract 1, Executive Order No. 3358 of November 24, 1920) to the point of beginning; and containing an area of 27.845 acres, more or less.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

April 22, 1954.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Executive Order 10528—Addition of the Marginal Wharf Area to Sand Island Military Reservation, Territory of Hawaii Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/235492

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